Place    From 1884 

Toynbee Hall

Categories: Social Welfare

The first university settlement house. Founded by Samuel and Henrietta Barnett. The idea was that the educated rich should live close to the poor and thus change society for the better. The Guild and School of Handicraft started life here in 1888.

Spitalfields Life have a good post about Toynbee Hall with lots of pictures.

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Toynbee Hall

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St Mary Matfelon

Our picture comes from Google satellite view and shows, better than can be se...

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Toynbee Hall

Toynbee Housing Society Evershed House Community - Opened on September 23rd 1...

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Toynbee Hall Gatehouse

Toynbee Hall Gatehouse Inaugurated by the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Harold...

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Thomas Stephen Dulley

Thomas Stephen Dulley

Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862. Thomas Stephen Dulley was born in 1821 in Putney, the fifth of the eleven children of Henry Dulley (1771-1846) and Tomzon Dicker Dulley née Stephens...

Person, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Mr William Aviss

Mr William Aviss

Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862.

Person, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Sir Reginald Rowe

Sir Reginald Rowe

Wrote the forward to the 1942 biography of Octavia Hill by E. Moberly Bell. The Improved Tenements Association was set up in 1900. From The London Journal: "As a concession to the societies, and t...

Person, Armed Forces, Law, Social Welfare, Sport / Games

1 memorial
Northern Outfall Sewer

Northern Outfall Sewer

A major 'gravity' sewer running from Hackney to Beckton. Mainly designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette after an outbreak of cholera in 1853 and the 'Great Stink' in the Thames of 1858. Our picture shows...

Place, Engineering, Social Welfare

2 memorials
Tower Hamlets Mission

Tower Hamlets Mission

Information about this site before the Mission arrived, from the "Black History Walk, Aldgate to Stepney Green" pdf: "On this site in the 18th century stood a inn called the White Raven Tavern. ......

Group, Social Welfare

2 memorials